The Snack Food Industry

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The Snack Food Industry
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What Exactly is Snack Food?

• Definition a small quantity of food light meal
  or refreshment taken between regular meals.
• To be defined as a snack, the food generally has
  300 calories or less per serving, anything more
  is considered a meal.
• Examples pretzels, tortilla chips, cookies,
  cheese snacks, crackers etc.

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The Snack Food Association

• International trade association of the snack food
  industry.
• Represents snack manufacturers and suppliers
• Represents over 400 companies worldwide

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Snack Food Association (cont.)

• Founded in 1937
• Mission Statement To provide value for SFA
  members by offering services and relationship
  building forums that strengthen the performance
  of member companies and support industry growth.
• The voice of the snack food industry before
  government
• Provides technical support to its members
• Researches and compiles annual snack industry
  sales and consumer data.

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National Snack Food Month

• Takes place in Febuary
• Sponsered by SFA
• Invented to increase consumption of snack food
  products
• Begins with Super Bowl Sunday so that it is
  easier promoted

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Top Snack Food Companies

• The Hershey Company
• J J Snack Foods Corp.
• Kellogg Company
• Kraft Foods Inc.
• Newman's Own, Inc.
• The Peanut Roaster, Inc.
• PepsiCo, Inc. (Owns Frito-Lay)
• The Procter Gamble Company

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Unhealthy Snack Foods and Why

• Icecreamhigh in fat, additives, and
  preservatives
• Fried chipsdepending on the oil, can have high
  amounts of saturated and trans-fats
• Popcorn (depends)depending on the amount of salt
  and butter, popcorn can either be an unhealthy or
  acceptable snack.
• Store-bought party mixes the often have an
  excess amount of sodium (salt), and flavored ones
  have excess calories.

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Healthy Snack Alternatives

• Fruits/Vegetables
• Low-Fat Yogurt
• Pretzels with low amounts of salt
• Popcorn with low amounts of butter or salt
• Whole-wheat crackers

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Global Market Share
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Conclusion
The Snack Food Industry is growing at a
substantial rate and provides many people with
much needed jobs. Although the industry is often
shown in a bad light for its production and
manufacturing of unhealthy snack foods like chips
and cheese snacks, it is also taking great
strides in attempting to make the snacks
healthier by placing guidelines for the fast food
companies. Companies like frito-lay are starting
to embrace the baked chip and low-calorie,
low-fat, and low-sodium snacks are being provided
by other such companies
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